As i begin to think of write a new song about Second Chances, i suddenly remembered the story about the father and the prodigal son in the book of Luke and whole theme about forgiving and forgetting.
The story about the father and prodigal son never fails to move my heart whenever i read it and it really describes how people living in the world today yearn for love and forgiveness from others. So for those who never heard of this story, here's how it goes briefly: There is this father living in the olden days who had two sons. So one day, the younger son demands a part of his inheritance even though the father was still alive, and decided to went to a distant country and enjoy his life. In the end, he spent all the inheritance and even had to reduce to being a swineherd. That was the turning point when he decided to reutrn back to his father as he felt that even he was to be the lowliest servant back home, he would still be better off as a swineherd.
When the son was on the long way back home, he kept on thinking that his father would never ever forgive him for the wrongs that he had done and would even disown him. However, to his dismay, his father had been waiting days and years and yearned for his son's return. He stood at the road with wide open arms and received his son into his bosom without any sign of anger or hatred in him. He even went to the extent of ordering his servant to kill a fatted calf and invite all their neighbours to celebrate and rejoice in this joyous occassion.
I always remembered what my parents always told me: No matter how bad the children may become or what they had done, no parents would ever hurt their children. And that a prodigal child coming back is much more precious than gold.
How true is that!!Most of the time, we will find ourselves loving our loved ones, our best friends and those whom we feel are so called on our league of friends. Yet to those whom we regarded as enemies, we will think of ways to gossip about them to others and how to take revenge.
In the gospel, Jesus says that we need to pray for those who persecute us, spitefully use us, hurt us and always pray for them and showing constant love to them. In everyone's lives, there will bound to be someone who has hurt us deeply before, use us before so much so that we find ourselves unable to forgive them and always keeping the hatred deep inside our heart.
Yet like what the story portrays, everybody deserves a second chance to be forgiven and forgotten of their wrongs. At times, emotions will get the better of us and we find it hard to forgive our enemies. Yet, success always involve making the right but the very tough decision and that's where love comes in; by giving unconditional love to somebody even though he or she may not really deserve to get it.
Just like at some point in life, we have hurt our parents in a deep way without realising it. Yet, they are always ready to forgive and forget becasue they have given us the unconditional love.
So let us start to forigve our enemies and sowing into their lives by forgiving them. Who knows, by this little act of kindness, it will change their lives forever like what the prodigal son experience?:D
Alright, back to writing the song!!Phew!!
11:56 PM
Monday, November 17, 2008
royston!!
Hahas sorry for the delay of the steamboat photos!!:D here it is!!:D basically on sunday, my jc choir peeps came to my house for steamboat!!they shld be feeling honoured cos it's the first time i opened up my house and invite people for dinner!!hahas, really miss them and its always a joy able to see them, chit chat and singing songs together!!:D hahas currently most of them are having exams, so jiayou rhoda, mavis, xiaohui and luanz!!D after which there will be an outing in dec!!:D
hahas from left: xiao hui, mr taylor, rhoda, mavis, chengluan, jiahao, me n zhirui!!:D
hahas and oh ya, thur went to give a birthday surprise for xiaohui at her house!!hahas in de end, her smu law frens, cca frens and jc choir peeps came to cele for her!!she muz be feeling really blessed lo, got so many ppl cele for her, soooo much FOOD ;);) and the highlight, a yamaha guitar!!hahas the guitar is seriously good, no wonder she played through the night till 2am!!:D after which got some sing along sessions, bit of carolling and of cos, song item by the birthday girl, singing her self composed song!!:D hahas and xh, if u r reading this, ur song is seriously nice and rox!!:D
hahas oh ya, and yest was chit huat's baptism aka Peter!!Congrats to u!!was held at the jurong west church rooftop, miss tat place!!:D
hahas Peter with Lixin:D
hahas tat's me with ronaldo, my best bro in the cg!!
the brothers who were there yest:D
sisters!!
and of cos not forgetting the cg:D
hahas after svc, went to changi airport popeye chicken cos the cg want to escort ascot for his 2 weeks china trip:D will be missing u mans bro, so take good care of urself and have fun teaching the kids there!!and oh ya, he sure got a way to bluff us round and round when he told everybody that he could not promote to J2 when the fact is he done so well for his promos and got top 20% in everything, proud of u!!:D
hahas and to end off, here is ascot being escorted to T3 by the cell group!!:D
4:39 PM
Sunday, November 16, 2008
royston!!
First up, thanks so much for the ppl who wished me Happy Birthday last Friday!! Even though may not have talk to some for quite some time, but it stil come as a very plesamt surprise!!:D
Hahas of cos, felt really blessed cos they actually orgainsed a "Mac Party" for me at King Albert Park there, reali thanks to janet, jamie, maria and phoebe!!:D And janet actually went to inivte my jc best frens along too!!Reali felt so blessed!!:D
The 2 bd boys: Nixom and I:D
Argh, wonder where did janet fish it from?;)
Wonderful fren to work with and always able to share burdens and troubles!!:D
Superb frens whom i had fond memories with tgt in the same sec school and cg!!:D
Best frens whom i missed so much!!See u all on sunday for steamboat at my hse!!:D
Of cos, w325 for being such a wonderful cg and part of my life!!:D I really feel so proud to be tgt with u all!!:D
And as usual.....;)
On a side note:
E G#m C#m E
当我看见， 你给我的爱， 我生命里充满了无限感恩。
A G#m C#m F#m B
十字架的宝血， 洗净我的一切。 主耶稣你就是我们的救主。
E G#m C#m E
当我看见， 你给我的爱， 我生命里充满了无限感恩。
A G#m C#m F#m B
没人的爱， 能与你相比。 我心里只想对你说。。。
E G#m C#m E
我会用我这一辈子去爱你， 用劲全心全意来对待你。
A B G#m C#m F#m B
我要赞美主， 那荣耀的圣名， 你血赐给我生命。
E G#m C#m E
我会用我这一辈子去爱你， 用劲全心全意来对待你。
A B G#m C# F#m
喔主耶稣， 我会永远跟随你， 我生命的一切，
B E
我会爱你主耶稣。
New song that i had just composed!!Presented it during cgm on friday!!:D Soundtrack will be out soon!!:D
And also, i passed FTT!!:D
11:04 PM
Monday, November 3, 2008
royston!!
